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The Davis Bay-Wilson Creek-Selma Park Community Association wants the District of Sechelt to ban fishing and crabbing from the Davis Bay wharf, but council’s previous response to the issue suggests they might not be open to going that far.

Ceremonies were held across the Sunshine Coast on Monday for Remembrance Day. Hundreds attended the Sechelt ceremony, held at the cenotaph at the intersection of Cowrie Street and the Sunshine Coast Highway.

Gibsons council is expected to vote Nov. 19 on whether to move forward with a 40-unit supportive-housing project on School Road.

Councillors in Sechelt served popcorn to the gallery to mark the anniversary of their inaugural meeting Nov. 6, and also took time to reflect on their first year in office. “It’s been extremely draining, emotionally speaking,” said Coun. Alton Toth.

One of the residents living in the Parkland subdivision in Gibsons is, once again, urging council to take action on the Town-owned geothermal energy utility that homes in the first phases of the subdivision were required to connect to.

The Town of Gibsons says it’s waiting on funding from BC Housing to operate a winter response shelter, after council approved leasing the Marine Room in the Arts Building at 464 South Fletcher Rd. at an in-camera session Nov. 5.

Hopkins Landing resident George Skea, 84, displays a special family Remembrance Day wreath that was placed at the cenotaph in Gibsons for Monday’s ceremony.

A name has been chosen and so has the feature artwork for shíshálh Nation’s six-storey mixed-use development that will include 34 units of affordable housing. The name of the development is Our House of Clans.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following from Nov. 4 to 11: • On Nov. 5, a hit and run to a parked vehicle occurred at the BC Ferries Terminal parking lot in Langdale.

A supplementary report from the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) says after hearing more evidence from gasoline wholesalers and retailers there is still “no concrete evidence” to explain the 13-cents-a-litre difference in wholesale gasoli